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Hi Jillian,

By dividing the volume by the number of voxels per resel you'll get 
the number of resels in your search space (ie the brain mask used in 
the 3rd level analysis).  If you then use

ptoz 0.05 -g RESELS_COUNT

you'll get the voxel-wise height threshold necessary for a p-value of 
0.05 in a GRF of the volume (in resels) of your data set.  In other 
words, any voxel with a z-score equal to or higher than the output of 
that command reaches a corrected level of significance in your 
experiment.  There is no additional extent threshold.  So yes, it is 
considerably more conservative than an uncorrected p<0.05.  On the 
other hand, it appropriately takes into account the number of 
independent comparisons being made.

Hope this helps.

Joe

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Joseph T. Devlin, Ph. D.
Dept. of Psychology,
UCL
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